The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy, but I want to see the former hurt the latter first.

Don’t you know that pointing out the obvious consequences of electing trump before the election was actually supporting genocide?

“now don’t you escalate that war Vladimir!” wink wink

It’s the same here. The Therapeutic Goods Administration, our equivalent to the FDA, generally follows along with FDA regulations (though I don’t think that will continue from next year somehow).

“whether they like it or not”

This is going to happen. Whether or not it’s ever “official policy”, people are going to be killed by this.

None of that matters because they made more money last time he was in office.

I’m starting to think that money in politics is a problem…

It’s looking for a gotcha moment to take out of context. During the last Australian federal election the then-Opposition leader (now Prime Minister) was asked what the Reserve Bank cash rate was and he didn’t know off the top of his head. The media and now-former government tried to beat it up as a big problem and proof that he wasn’t fit to be PM, which is ridiculous (though his actual performance as PM so far is underwhelming). It did lead to a great moment a couple of days later though when they tried it on the leader of the Greens, who just replied “Google it, mate”.